RDH suffers ransomware attack

Rangely District Hospital (RDH) will send notices this week to patients whose records may have been involved in a ransomware attack in April 2020.

According to a press release issued June 8, parts of the hospital’s computer network were attacked by ransomware, including some files containing patients’ health information and other files necessary to view certain patient information.

Ransomware is a type of computer virus that encrypts files and demands that a ransom payment be…